Sep 19 2006
Sonali Out – 09/20 to 09/25
Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar will be out of town on a book tour from September 20-25th. She will be back live on Tuesday September 26th.
Archive for September 19th, 2006
Sep 19 2006
House Passes Border Fence Legislation
Last Thursday, the House of Representatives passed “The Secure Fence Act of 2006,†that calls for erecting a 700 mile double layer wall along the U.S.-Mexican border. House Resolution 6061 passed by a vote of 283 – …
Sep 19 2006
FCC Supresses its own Report
GUEST: Adam Candeub, Assistant Professor of Law at Michigan State University College of Law
Last week, California Senator Barbara Boxer released a draft of a study by the Federal Communications Commission, showing that media consolidation leads to less local TV news coverage. Adam Candeub, a former lawyer with the FCC said FCC managers …
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Sep 19 2006
Save The New Standard!
GUESTS: Brian Dominick, Jessica Azulay, members of the New Standard Collective
As my producer and I opened one of our favorite online news sites yesterday, we were faced with the words, “TNS Slated to Disappear.” TNS is the The New Standard, a news service managed by a collective of journalists and published …
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Sep 19 2006
September 19, 2006
The History that Might Have Been
Christopher Columbus couldn’t discover America: he didn’t have a visa or even a passport.
Pedro Alvares CAbral couldn’t get off the boat in Brazil: he might have been carrying smallpox, measles, the flu, or other foreign plagues.
Hernan Cortes and Francisco Pizarro could never have begun the conquest of Mexico and Peru: they didn’t have working papers.
Pedro …
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